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Recent Book Purchases (about 20 minutes ago)

nospam@example.com (Brendon Kozlowski) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:52:15 -0500

I'm not much of a traditional reader. Ever since I was jaded from using my actual imagination by my father, I had completely lost interest in fictional writing, and I never had an interest in history. My primary reading interests now focus only on technology, programming, and things related therein. So, although my reading habits may be boring, I'm still excited about my recent purchases.

I've been needing to use Subversion for awhile now, and although I have it set up and installed, running, and have used it a few times, I really don't know the actual power and capabilities to truly use it, so...now hopefully I will with the following book.

...and in the honor of trying to keep up with the current trends, I also purchased a book to show how to use (and the reasons for using) Git:

...currently on pre-order, the book is released at the end of the month. Until Git is easily installable on Windows without a lot of pre-requirements, I don't see this being very helpful to me though, but it's always important to at least have a working knowledge.

Now, as a somewhat interesting book that I've felt I would be able to use well in my market, I came across (quite by accident) a little treasure entitled "Selling to the VP of 'No'".

Here's the book's description:

He might be your sales prospect, your boss, an investor, or the chairman of the board. He is also one tough dude. He has to be. Every hour of every day, someone tries to sell him something. He has one way to deal with them: Say "NO." It’s brutally simple, but it works, because most people are simply a waste of his time. Selling Stars know how to break through that tough exterior and get the VP of NO to listen to their story. In this short, visual book, you will learn the secrets of the Selling Stars: how to turn the VP of NO into the VP of GO!

Awesome.

Your Dirty Mind

nospam@example.com (Brendon Kozlowski) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:55:35 -0500

Saw this on YouTube after doing a search on motivational posters of the same title.

Car Commercial Ingenuity

nospam@example.com (Brendon Kozlowski) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:19:36 -0400

Although the advertisement itself falls a little short in terms of ... plot? ...a point? ...marketing reliability? ...it's still a really, really cool little computer animated spot.

I truly do enjoy Robot Chicken

nospam@example.com (Brendon Kozlowski) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:01:11 -0400

Whether you like George Bush or not, you have to admit this is funny.

I've stepped into the Dark Side.

nospam@example.com (Brendon Kozlowski) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:37:26 -0400

Now, not only do I own an Apple Mac Mini, but I've just purchased something I swore I never would. I've bought an iPod Nano. I don't listen to music "on the go", I don't like headphones or ear plugs, and if I did, I'd want to be sure it played protected Windows' Media Audio (and/or video) files. ...so why the iPod?

Simple: it's the best digital device for tracking (and assistive training in) running habits when you also purchase the Nike+iPod kit. Supposedly, it doesn't work with any other model (and who'd want to have a 30GB model strapped to their arm?), and all the other competitive devices I've seen just don't quite measure up to this dynamic duo. It is an expensive thing, but when looking at someone's 2nd look at the device in action, I couldn't resist. The ability to hack, gather, and use all that nifty data was just causing me to ooze with curiosity, and the "I want one" syndrome!
Continue reading "I've stepped into the Dark Side."

Moby Music Videos

nospam@example.com (Brendon Kozlowski) — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:44:49 -0400

After being linked to some music videos today on YouTube by "Ok Go", I started reminiscing about other music videos I've seen. One in particular came to mind (and it took me a good hour to find it again), Moby's "Natural Blues". I think this video tells a wonderful story, and has a great musical backdrop for the story -- the music's great on its own too! While looking for that video, I stumbled across one I had seen awhile ago, "Slipping Away". I love this one almost purely for the amazing video effects work and photo touch ups (most likely done pre-pre-production). The matching of the video to the song was done so perfectly and precisely however, that it's a magnificent piece of art in music.

If you'd like an emotional, touching moment, watch these videos.

I am delirious over DELIRIUM.

nospam@example.com (Brendon Kozlowski) — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:55:03 -0400

Cirque Du Soliel's DELIRIUM, coming to a town near you (you had better hope). Now, if only I can find some people to go with me.